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Talk leadership and mental health with VC-turned-professional coach Jerry Colonna
Jul 01, 4:29PM
Esteemed venture investor-turned-professional coach Jerry Colonna has worked with a long list of top CEOs and renowned executive teams. In his new book, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up (available now), Jerry explores the tension between traditional leadership practices and personal happiness that faces many founders today. Jerry discusses how strong leadership and […]
Apply for an AMA session with a female All Raise VC at Disrupt SF 2019
Jul 01, 4:13PM
Female founders, what questions would you ask if you could spend 30 minutes picking the brain of a leading female VC? Your opportunity to find out awaits at Disrupt SF 2019 on October 2-4. We've partnered with All Raise — a startup non-profit with a mission to accelerate your success — to host a day-long […]
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Factorial Digital
Jul 01, 4:05PM
SEO has been around for decades, but it’s still one of the most important growth channels for early-stage startups. Factorial Digital is a growth marketing agency based in NYC that specializes in search and startups. Co-founder Corey Eulas shares his philosophy for growth marketing and how his distributed team collaborates with companies across a variety […]
We'll talk even more Kubernetes at TC Sessions: Enterprise with Microsoft's Brendan Burns and Google's Tim Hockin
Jul 01, 4:00PM
You can’t go to an enterprise conference these days without talking containers — and specifically the Kubernetes container management system. It’s no surprise then, that we’ll do the same at our inaugural TC Sessions: Enterprise event on September 5 in San Francisco. As we already announced last week, Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie and Google’s director […]
Uber brings bikes and scooters, including Lime's, to the forefront
Jul 01, 4:00PM
Uber is taking another step to more fully integrate micromobility into its core services. Today, Uber is now showing JUMP bikes, scooters and Lime scooters in the main map you see when you first open up the Uber app in Atlanta, Ga. and San Diego, Calif. This is the first time Uber has so prominently […]
Samsung launched an app store for Bixby
Jul 01, 3:20PM
Oh, Bixby. Samsung made big promises and some key acquisitions ahead of its launch. But the company's smart assistant got off to a rocky start and has had trouble making a name for itself in amongst a sea of competitors ever since. Third-party integration has long been one of the categories in which Samsung has […]
Spotify shuts down its music upload beta program for artists
Jul 01, 3:18PM
Spotify is shutting down a program that allowed indie artists to upload their own music to the streaming service, the company announced today. The new upload tool was first introduced in beta testing in September 2018, offering U.S. artists an easy way to add tracks and their accompanying metadata to Spotify with just a few […]
MobiTV tunes into $50M for its set-top-box-free broadcast services for pay TV providers
Jul 01, 2:46PM
After raising $21 million in 2017 for a late-stage pivot from mobile TV to set-top-box-free IPTV services for the home, MobiTV is announcing another large growth round. The company — an early mover in building services to stream broadcast TV on mobile devices (it was established in 1999) — has raised $50 million more to […]
Hear about how to exit from Jess Lee, Justin Kan and Michael Marquez at Disrupt SF
Jul 01, 2:35PM
All startup founders want to steer to a successful outcome the business they started. Sometimes the goal is an initial public offering. Sometimes it’s an acquisition. Though acquisitions often represent a kind of finish line for entrepreneurs, they aren’t easy to line up, and even when an offer is on the table, it often comes […]
Amazon rolls out early Prime Day deals on devices, including Fire TV Recast, services and more
Jul 01, 2:03PM
In addition to expanding Prime Day to a two-day sale event, taking place on July 15-16, Amazon today announced it’s kicking things off with early Prime Day sales across a range of devices and services. The pre-sale includes discounts on the Fire TV Recast, Ring Video Doorbell and Echo Dot — the latter a perennial […]
Analysts think global 5G smartphone shipments will overtake 4G in 2023
Jul 01, 1:49PM
After years of buildup, 5G is finally here — albeit more as a trickle than a deluge. These things take time, of course. Carriers are adding coverage, city by city, promising dozens by year’s end. And as for hardware, early adopters have somewhere between one and three handsets to choose from, carrier-dependent. Indeed, 5G is […]
Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats
Jul 01, 12:58PM
When Shomik Dutta and Betsy Hoover first met in 2007, he was coordinating fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign and she was a deputy field director for the campaign. Over the next two election cycles the two would become parts of an organizing and fundraising team that transformed the business of […]
Nexon takes control of emerging game studio Embark via a $96M investment
Jul 01, 12:01PM
Six months ago Korean games giant Nexon seemed headed for a management change, but now it seems very much back to business as usual. Days after founder Kim Jung-ju was reported to have called off selling his near-50 percent share in the firm, Nexon has snapped up a controlling stake in seven-month-old game developer Embark […]
The winners of The Europas Awards 2019 display Europe's continuing diversity and ambition
Jul 01, 11:20AM
The Europas Awards for European Tech Startups came around again last week (Thursday 27th June), and once again proved that Europe’s enormous diversity in startups continues to shine through on the world stage. Once again TechCrunch was the exclusive media sponsor of the awards, alongside new “tech, culture & society” event creator The Pathfounder. Attendees, […]
Tara.ai, which uses machine learning to spec out and manage engineering projects, nabs $10M
Jul 01, 10:09AM
Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly important component of how a lot of technology works; now it’s also being applied to how technologists themselves work. Today, one of the startups building such a tool has raised some capital, Tara.ai, a platform that uses machine learning to help an organization get engineering projects done — from […]
China silences podcast and music apps as online crackdown widens
Jul 01, 9:44AM
Audio apps are flying high in China. In 2018, online listeners in the country grew 22.1% to surpass 400 million, at a rate far exceeding that of the mobile video and e-reading populations, according to market researcher iiMedia. But the fledgling sector is taking a hit. On Friday, a total of 26 audio-focused apps were […]
Flux, the digital receipts and rewards platform, adds support for online takeout marketplace Just Eat
Jul 01, 8:00AM
Flux, the London fintech that offers a platform for banks and merchants to power digital receipts and rewards, has unveiled its first partnership with an online-only merchant. The London-based company has managed to sign up Just Eat, the online marketplace for takeout food and delivery. As of today, Just Eat's U.K. customers will be able […]
Epidemic Sound raises $20M at a $370M valuation for its soundtrack music discovery and licensing platform
Jul 01, 7:25AM
The rise of streamed video has seen the market for licensing streamed music boom in the last few years, with not only consumers using video as a medium to listen to tracks but video creators also extensively using music as part of their own productions. Today, a startup that has built a platform to capitalise […]
With a fresh $10 million in the bank, DotLab hopes to bring endometriosis test to market
Jul 01, 7:01AM
Thirty-three-year-old founder of personalized medicine company DotLab, Heather Bowerman, wants to shake up the women’s health industry with what she believes to be a better, cheaper, less painful test for endometriosis. Her company has just completed a Yale University -led validation study and raised $10 million in Series A funding from CooperSurgical, TigerGlobal Management, Luxor […]
Japan will restrict the export of some materials used in smartphones and chips to South Korea
Jul 01, 3:57AM
Japan's trade ministry said today that it will restrict the export of some tech materials to South Korea, including polyimides used in flexible displays made by companies like Samsung Electronics. The new rules come as the two countries argue over compensation for South Koreans forced to work in Japanese factories during World War II. The […]
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